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I received a question today and thought I'd ask blog readers if they can help with answers. The question comes from a blog reader who captures a lot of different videos within their organization. They have "over a couple of thousand of video and audio clips that new hires and tenured employees are currently using for on-boarding and training." What they want to do is to help employees better access the video content. They've seen viddler which allows people to tag specific sections within the video. They are interested in that capability, but also in rating the videos, and ...
eLearning Technology - Wednesday, July 2, 2008 - CommentsPodcast Fast with GCast
Yes, that’s probably the cheesiest title I’ve ever used, I know… But I recently found out about GCast, a free service that lets you record messages using your phone and then converts them to a podcast. Sure, this is kind of similar to Jott, but I like the simplicity of GCast. It does one thing, and it does it well ...
eLearning Weekly - Saturday, June 28, 2008 - CommentsFirefox 3
... is available to download today.This Guide explains the new and changed features you will find in the new version of the browser. These include:Add-on managerBookmarksFull page zoomPassword managerVideo and audio feedsA Field Guide to Firefox ...
Jane Knight - Tuesday, June 17, 2008 - CommentsDaily Bookmarks 06/11/2008
Games by GAMBIT: AudiOdyssey A game developed so that visually impaired users can play it, using either a Wiimote or keyboard. One of the goals was to create “an engaging game that relies more on high quality audio than visuals.” Very interesting concept; quality accessibly game design could also help designing for other applications. tags: games, accessibility From Degrading to De-Grading Alfie Kohn on reasons to abolish the current grading system in favor of authentic assessment to focus on learning, rather than grading. Includes a number of citations that would be ...
Experiencing eLearning - Wednesday, June 11, 2008 - CommentsWikis for Improving Productivity
I’m liveblogging the webinar Growing in a Down Market with PBwiki. My comments are in italics. Presenter: Teo Mayes, CTO RMC Vanguard They used UStream for the audio, in addition to the typical phone line. I know I’m a little late to the party, but this is actually the first time I’ve used UStream. So far, so good! RMC Vanguard is a mortgage company–able to do major increases in their business even with the economy not good for mortgage companies ... checked the wiki?” Internally reinforces use of wiki informally. Q: Can you upload videos & audio? A: They ...
Experiencing eLearning - Tuesday, June 10, 2008 - CommentsHelp, I Cant' Stop Learning!
Xbox360.(showed the preliminary introduction. AMAZING graphics and audio detail.)Creating a sense of anticipation, what yet to come very powerful."One more turn" phenomenon. People want to see what's going to happen next.- Separate paths.- Players mind always looking towards "what's going to happen next."- The introduction is the layout for what is going to happen next. Something to look forward to. - What is the big picture? Where are we going?Always trying to create sense of anticipation ...
In the Middle of the Curve - Thursday, June 5, 2008 - CommentsLearning for the New Mobile Society
... one mobile modality and/or device.- Best research from Europe using Africa as testbed.- Mobile sending audio podcast ... - mobileweb. Wiki with audio and text (by choice of user).- Can get info from audio form and text form.- Can use ...
In the Middle of the Curve - Wednesday, June 4, 2008 - CommentsDaily Bookmarks 05/30/2008
IDEA - The International Dialects Of English Archive Audio primary source collection with international and regional dialects of English. Intended primarily for actors learning to imitate an accent, but could have other educational uses too. tags: primarysources, audio AU Press - The Theory and Practice of Online Learning (second edition) Terry Anderson has edited the second ed. of this book, available online under a CC-NC license. You can download the entire book or just individual chapters by specific authors. tags: e-learning, creativecommons, theory, technology, quality, ...
Experiencing eLearning - Friday, May 30, 2008 - CommentsAudio Feedback on Student Assignments in Online Courses
eLearning Acupuncture - Wednesday, May 28, 2008 - CommentsAudio Feedback on Student Assignments in Online Courses
eLearning Acupuncture - Wednesday, May 28, 2008 - CommentsWhat's a Women's Blog Jam?
... communication like video, audio, etc.) and publishing your content on a blog. Although open to all, the focus is on the unique voice of women and the education/training/learning niche. We’ll loosely focus on e-learning, technology, professional development, and how people take different approaches to blogging. Some possible conversations… You: professional advancement and personal identity Customs: blogiquette (the edublogosphere community) The craft: finding your blogging voice and niche Technical information: readers, widgets, blogrolls, Technorati advertising,…what they’re all about Come and jam with us! Where? The Innovations in Learning Conference Open to all conference attendees (men too) Featuring Michele Martin, Christine Martell, Cathy Moore, and others (including me) If you are attending the conference and want to participate in the jam, please contact me at JanetATbrandon-hallDOTcom ...
Janet Clarey - Tuesday, May 27, 2008 - CommentsAudio Feedback on Student Assignments in Online Courses
eLearning Acupuncture - Tuesday, May 27, 2008 - CommentsBest of the Guild's Learning Solutions
Communication. Marc's take is that web conferencing right now is primarily an audio-led medium - sure you can add slides and interactions, but the dominant channel is auditory. Aware that monologues can swiftly lose the attention of the audience, Marc was inspired by the techniques used in radio production to keep the listener engaged: vary voice types make frequent use of interviews and discussions split a session into multiple segments use music to start and close a segment have a host to create continuity between the segments Right now I'm into interviews ...
Clive on Learning - Wednesday, May 21, 2008 - CommentsDaily Bookmarks 05/18/2008
ZaidLearn: 75 Free EduGames to Spice Up Your Course! Directory of free educational games, plus some online resources about games in education. tags: education, games, e-learning Musopen - Free Public Domain Classical Music Sheet music and audio in the public domain. You can hear a random piece or listen to their online radio station too. tags: music, audio, publicdomain Make Your Blog Design Work For You | chrisbrogan.com Design ideas from someone who says that every part of his blog design is intentional. It may not be perfect, but he’s thought about all the elements and how ...
Experiencing eLearning - Sunday, May 18, 2008 - CommentsiTouch Learning
... accordingly. Just like any other iPod you can synchronise your audio files with iTunes, but with the Touch you can also sync your email accounts, bookmarks, contacts and so on. I consider the iPod Touch to be a very useful mobile learning device. I've also been putting together a list of the top web apps and optmised sites for the iPod Touch for learning and performance support purposes, as well as collecting tips to get the most out of it as well as other resources about its use ...
Jane Knight - Monday, May 5, 2008 - CommentsContent creation skills are widespread
I presented yesterday in London at the conference of the Learning and Skills Group on the subject of rapid e-content creation. As part of my session I asked the group to rate their proficiency in each of these skills: Using a digital camera Editing photos Using a camcorder Editing movies Writing textual content Laying out textual content Creating graphics Building presentations Recording audio Editing audio The rating scale was as follows: Five stars - professional Four stars - enthusiast Three stars - improver Two stars - beginner One ...
Clive on Learning - Thursday, May 1, 2008 - CommentsRequest for Training via Blackberry - Anyone, anyone...
... contains audio and automatic slide changes or similar functionality. I understand the BB does not have a Flash driver, yet ... separate application on the BB and drill down to play a file and that the file includes audio and visual information ... see if that includes audio. Cost is also a factor, so attrition of old units for new ones is more viable than purchasing ...
Corporate eLearning Strategies and Development - Thursday, April 24, 2008 - CommentsSocial Conference Tools - Expect Poor Results
... perhaps as a tag cloud. Keep the conference web site going. Continue to maintain it. Post videos and audio podcasts of sessions. It's good for your community, and good advertising for your conference.A lot of these I think are really good ideas in theory and I'm constantly waiting for them to take off. Actually, I'm continually trying to figure out how to make conferences more effective use of time. And I've actually talked about this quite in posts such as:More on Better ConferencesMaking the Most of Attending a Conference - Ideas NeededBetter ConferencesBetter Conferences - Response NeededMore posts on ConferencesI think there are some really good ideas in David's post and in some of these other posts ...
eLearning Technology - Wednesday, April 23, 2008 - CommentsBad Course on Instructional Design
... pointed out in a comment and I talked about in Audio Narration vs. On-Screen Textyou should never have voice-over that's the ... (people are not very forgiving around narration and other audio). Further, there was no audio control to let you ...
eLearning Technology - Thursday, April 17, 2008 - CommentsTCC08: Making Distance Learning Courses Accessible
... files & audio podcasts Interactive online class meetings Matthew (Blind) Limitations Reading & inputting ... to have the meta information with the text, not just an image of the text) Create descriptive audio for videos (i.e. ... Marlee: Deaf Limitations Hearing audio content Hearing and speaking during synchronous meetings Accommodations Captioning Alternative text for audio (i.e., transcript) Video conferencing Tips for Marlee Elluminate has real-time ... ;t JUST read them, but if you read them it, then that content is available via audio Not every instructor can do all ...
Experiencing eLearning - Thursday, April 17, 2008 - CommentsTCC08: What can Educators Learn from Online Religious Communities?
Questions: Most people in the online communities were part of other face-to-face Christian communities Audio might be better for people who have trouble typing Technorati Tags: tcc08, tcc2008, education, religion, community, ...
Experiencing eLearning - Thursday, April 17, 2008 - CommentsTCC08: Extreme Makeover: Course Edition
... watch the slides while listening to the audio of the instructor reading the 170+ slides. Her choice? Neither! Check Teaching Naked This is all stuff we’re already working on with PLS courses–nice to see that we’re on the right track Examples Visual test with maps–created in WebCT, can be done elsewhere too Zip files for Blackboard course available on blog Technorati Tags: interactivity ...
Experiencing eLearning - Wednesday, April 16, 2008 - CommentsTips and Tricks - Captivate 3
File size shrinking- Don't need the entire recording area (720x540 recommended)- Reduce color.- Remove excess desktop icons- Avoid gradients- Limit full motion recording. (click directional arrows vs. dragging the scrollbar).- Limit media - is audio needed?- Compress audio- Image compression- Keep projects short (3 minutes recommended).- Easily link using skin menuSingle SWF- Additional files- Avoid additional files -- project>skin>uncheck bordersIntegrate full motion recording slides into project- the full motion recording slide is external now.- Insert new slide. InsertFull ...
In the Middle of the Curve - Tuesday, April 15, 2008 - CommentsHelping to move Workplace Learning to 2.0
... existing resources in a variety of formats including video and audio - both expert and user-generated You can read more about the rationale and design in the FAQ. The 25 tools selected for this resource provide a representative sample of the wide range of technologies available to create many different types of (personal and group) learning "solutions" and "experiences". However, it does include a couple of transmission/transactional tools, since it is recognised that this will inevitably remain a part of organisational learning for some time to come ...
Jane Knight - Saturday, April 12, 2008 - CommentsDaily Bookmarks 04/09/2008
Read The Words Free text-to-speech application that creates mp3s of content from multiple formats. Audio can be shared on a blog as a podcast but not sold commercially. Originally designed to help students with learning disabilities access text more easily. tags: audio, text-to-speech, ...
Experiencing eLearning - Wednesday, April 9, 2008 - CommentsOn Narration and eLearning
... corporate laptop’s cheap audio circuitry with the janitor vacuuming the office in the background. And no one wants to ... affordability and quality when it comes to audio production, and you can get set up for great-sounding narration work for a ...
eQuixotic - Thursday, April 3, 2008 - 8 commentsYouConvertIt
Convert any media file format (Documents, Images, Audio, Video & Archives) without buying or installing anything on your PC. Free ...
Jane Knight - Wednesday, April 2, 2008 - CommentsWhy Do Top Executives Make e-Learning Systems a Business Strategy?
PDAs or handheld devices that present short training on products in audio, image and text, when the employee scans the product. This is training as needed. Furthermore, they are experimenting on providing customers the PDAs so these customers can learn (train themselves) more about the product.There are many other reasons, but the above often make executives look at e-Learning systems and find out that e-Learning can help as a business strategy ...
Ray Jimenez - Tuesday, April 1, 2008 - CommentsPowerPoint accessibility
... and add the alt text manually. Embedded video or audio clips must be captioned. Hearing Make sure all audio or video is captioned before you embed it into PowerPoint. When appropriate, include a transcript. Complex charts or tables may not contain proper headings or long descriptions. Sight If the user has MS Office, it may be possible to interpret the data in Excel. It may be difficult or impossible to make tables and charts accessible within PowerPoint presentations, consider converting to HTML instead ...
Clive on Learning - Monday, March 31, 2008 - Comments"The iPhone dominates the smartphone market in mobile media consumption" (ZDNet)
ZDNet Story, Media Metrics Press Release w/ more readable numbers) Check out those numbers. Those are big jumps over smartphones and quantum jumps over the general market. The piece that needs to be overlaid though, is market penetration and number of units sold...I think then that the chart reverses itself. So for content development's sake, looking down the numbers, I'd say there is an argument here for focusing on audio as a main component of phone-based content (I'm going to quit saying 'mobile' as a general term because who knows what that means anymore - PSP, iPod, cell ...
e-Clippings (blogoehlert) - Tuesday, March 25, 2008 - Comments
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